Little Feat - S&D, C/D

Willin4Ever

heard on the radio yesterday: nice piece about their visit to nz in '76

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/201827361/under-the-influence-little-feat

"Long distance Love" is so good

"Mercenary Territory" on Columbus...wow

Anybody know if the sound on the Rad Gumbo set is better than that on the original Albums series?
I probably need the first couple of lps at least. So wondering what the best way to get them is.

Would love deluxe versions of the individual lps but looks like such things haven't happened and I'm not sure when the last time the lps were remastered was. Not sure if anybody could say for sure about the Rad Gumbo stuff from what I can remember reading at the time of release.

The first four and Time Loves a Hero are the Japanese remasters from the late 2000s. The Last Record Album is the original cd version. Waiting for Columbus is the Rhino expanded edition. Hoy Hoy, Let It Roll and Representing the Mambo are original cd versions.

The box sounds great. I have no regrets about upgrading from the original cds which are what is used in the Original Albums series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8

finger lickin' groove

good example of a band's most popular song being one of the ones I always skip

the way hayward turns the beat around after the huge slide solo

in mercenary territory, not dixie chicken

LG played on Robert Palmer's first album? Damn

he kills it on van dyke parks' discover america

LG (and most of the rest of the Feet) are on the first few Palmers.

Seems like this would be right in Ace Records' wheelhouse, but somebody ought to do Lowell George: Session Man Anthology.

That would be ace

No mention of LG on the - discover America - Wikipedia page

There is on allmusic though

LF also backs John Cale on Paris 1919, right?

Yup.

Put on your sailing shoes=light it up bro

"Long distance Love" is so good

― calstars, Sunday, December 18, 2016 1:41 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the sweetest song. so many great sounds and melodies.

Yeah! It almost sounds like the blueprint for late 80s adult contemporary Bonnie Raitt. Which would make sense as she used to perform with LF.

Two degrees in bebop, a PHD in swing
He's a master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king

love the rock n roll doctor.... looking back up thread i see i posted this almost ten years ago. still great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1AWV3F8muI

LG talks a little technique with some German dudes, ya

https://youtu.be/sDF4x1ICbkY

The reason Rock and roll doctor is so great is cause it's a shuffle. Embarrassingly late realizing this.

I guess the "if you like the sound of shuffling feet" line should have tipped me off

this is still the best. peak. all cylinders. the definition of rollicking. anarchy in the u.k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXsFZjfNCDY

Appreciate your opinion but respectful disagree : )
75 gets my money.

When LG still had his "fighting weight" as some YouTube commenter put it.

I mean slide players weigh in here but ... I find it very interesting that LG doesn't mute the other strings when he plays. I was taught that you should. I play with the slide on my ring finger and my index and middle muting the others. Kind of blown away to see LG playing with the slide on his pinky with no regard for muting.

Mercenary on Columbus is still my fave thing of theirs tho

booming post from vornado upthread

The thing that makes me really appreciate LF, besides the pure chops aspect and George's songwriting and slide-guitar wit, is the weird fiction-making that they were engaged in. They shared it with The Band, and Credence Clearwater Revival, and The Grateful Dead (version 1970), and, to some extent, Dr. John (when he was The Nightripper): There was this imagination and invention of an American musical tradition to which they were the natural successors, but which never actually existed. In LF's case, something like a Disney version of New Orleans, in which Robert Johnson come down from the Delta sat in with Professor Longhair. It was a cousin to Shangri-La or Macondo, a magical source of all stories.

This page has some interesting info on a couple of side projects, including akiko Yano's album and "Chico - the master." Anyone heard this stuff?

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/little-feat-playing-on-japanese-girl.474402/

4 hour road trip with the family and LF will be in heavy rotation. What shouldn’t I leave out of mix?

Put Spanish Moon on there three times in a row.

that'll do er

Rock n roll doctor. Willin’. Two trains.

Stuff from the Lowell solo album ("Easy Money", "Cheek To Cheek", "Honest Man" etc.)

Kind of amazed to discover last night that LG plays on a couple tracks on Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

So it seems that the world keeps on turning but so what

Was always intrigued by their first two albums--they started out as mostly ex-Mothers of Invention, right? Pictured them as living not that far from Beefheart's trailer in the desert. Think some of them played on Bonnie Raitt's excellent version of Chris Smither's "I Feel The Same," and she appeared on at least one of their albums, and there was some talk of her joining the band (a post-LG line-up of LF did very eventually hire a female lead singer, but I don't know how that worked out).

xpost "Long Distance Love" always seemed like a crucial influence on Isbell.

Mike McDonald super backing vox on the funky Red Streamliner...late period greatness

I thought the revive might be about the first Akiko Yano record getting a reissue.

Oh, that’s a good one

Here's a curious artifact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jgIQBzQZk

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsSl7xOK2Qs

Cool!

While we're sharing vids, here's live in the rehearsal studio one the band made for "Long Distance Love" to air on The Test...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeHlrS-FLH4

Is that the really drugged out one? The boys look tired

How did you wind up getting Lowell George, Bill Payne and Richie Hayward of Little Feat to play on Paris 1919 ?
I loved that album Dixie Chicken. That tone on [George’s] guitar was very sweet. It was the grooves that he had. And after playing me an early cut of that record, [producer] Ted Templeman at Warner Bros. said to me: “Why don’t you use Little Feat as a backup band for Paris ?” He organized it.
one of lots of good tidbits here:https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-shifty-adventures-of-john-cale/
Somewhere else JC mentioned that Wilton Felder, who played bass w the Feats on this occasion (in a studio line-up billed as Penguin), read or at least had the Bible on his music stand during the sessions.

Read more: https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-shifty-adventures-of-john-cale/#ixzz5j8gYBxb4